Gunman Surrenders After 10-Hour Armed Standoff in Doylestown
The suspect, an off-duty New Jersey police officer, exchanged sporadic fire with responding officers as mid-afternoon standoff lasts until nearly midnight.
DOYLESTOWN (PA) - In the end, Richard Klementovich had nothing to say. The off-duty police officer from Clifton, NJ, was escorted from the back of a Doylestown Township squad car shortly after midnight Sunday after a 10-hour armed standoff that forced neighbors to evacuate their homes in this affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Klementovich remained silent as officers ushered him into the police department where he would be booked to face at least 13 charges of criminal attempted homicide and reckless endangerment. About a half hour earlier, Klementovich had surrendered without incident to officers on the front lawn of his estranged wife's home at 25 Bittersweet Drive in the Doylestown Lea neighborhood of Doylestown Township. As police began …
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Vern
9:15 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
When you see that kind of police response do not stand there and make it their job to tell you to leave. Be an adult and get your kids to a safe place. The police can not protect the whole world. Stop being a "deer caught in headlights" just because you think it might interesting to see what is going on. Go home and read about it later. more ›